Across
- 1. You get one of these when finishing a PhD in Finland (5)
- 6. Donald _: Inventor of LaTeX (5)
- 7. English blue cheese (7)
- 9. Russian assassin in Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil (9)
- 10. Jon _: Discovered that cholera is waterborne (4)
- 12. Chicken Man toy collector in Toy Story 2 (3,2)
- 13. J.K. _: Omniman in Invincible and J. Jonah Jameson Jr. in Spiderman (7)
- 17. Controversial brewery (7)
- 19. _ point: Non-Hermitian degeneracy of both eigenvalues and eigenvectors (11)
- 23. Parry with a down-facing point (5)
- 24. Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, and Noam Chomsky all knew this person [last name] (7)
- 25. Better understanding this will help with quantum computing applications (11)
- 26. David Mitchell's character in Ludwig (4)
- 27. _ van Rossum: Creator of Python (5)
- 28. Main character of The War Between the Land and the Sea (7)
Down
- 2. _ Smith: Main character in 1984 (7)
- 3. Gap in time where nothing happens (6)
- 4. Welsh Vineyard [your bday present] (5,6)
- 5. This day (7)
- 8. Claude 5 variant (5)
- 9. _ model: Method for expressing a differential equation on a lattice (5,7)
- 10. _ Oh: Kyle's PhD supervisor (4,4)
- 11. Manchester mayor known as "King in the North" (7)
- 14. _ful is bad but _some is great (3)
- 15. Rhun ap _: First Minister of Wales (7)
- 16. Jake's DnD location (7)
- 18. Does his own dentistry (8)
- 20. Cory is in the top 5% of players in this game (9)
- 21. Mozart's middle name (7)
- 22. Surbiton Wetherspoons (10,4)
